black dress: She was born on the site of Nome, and said her parents were buried about where the A.C. Co store is: She has not been in town - never before. Her surprise at telephone, the new fire engine tc &c. is childishlike ["ish" struck through] and simple. Yet she sat at our table - and the dinner was rather swell, though we were not in full dress - and did not once make a mistake. Every thing was done with perfect dignity and modesty. She told me of a poor little orphan boy whose legs were frozen & bent under him - I asked her to send him in to me & I would get him in the hospital. One is driven to be better by the fact, of which she never speaks, that last year when so many of her tribe died with an epidemic she went from place to place & gathered 14 orphan children into her own home and cared for them. She has nursed, rescued & aided more sick and despairing white miners than any other person near here, - the papers have given her a good notice, and her visit to Nome